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Hoover is a Republican, with libertarian beliefs on social issues. [19] [20] Hoover is an advocate for gay rights, including gay marriage, arguing that individual freedom and marriage are conservative values. [21] She has been profiled in The Advocate as "exactly the brand of straight ally we need right now". [22]
The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States political system and the oldest active political party in the country as well as in the world. The Democratic Party was founded in 1828. [1][2][3] It is also the oldest active voter-based political party in the world. The party has changed significantly during ...
The Democratic-Republican Party splintered in 1824 into the short-lived National Republican Party and the Jacksonian movement which in 1828 became the Democratic Party. Under the Jacksonian era, the term "The Democracy" was in use by the party, but the name "Democratic Party" was eventually settled upon [126] and became the official name in ...
Hoover described the Constitution the “Ark of the Covenant” of liberty. When the Republican Party was in full retreat during the New Deal, Hoover became the leading conservative voice to ...
The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. After President Calvin Coolidge declined to seek reelection, Hoover emerged as the Republican party ...
Republican. Elected President. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democratic. The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by ...
The nation's two largest liberal newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, have the same problem. The "Democracy Dies in Darkness" paper now has Marc Thiessen, a Fox News contributor ...
The 1930 United States elections were held on November 4, 1930, in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover 's term. Taking place shortly after the start of the Great Depression, the Republican Party suffered substantial losses. The election was the last of the Fourth Party System, and marked the first time since 1918 that Democrats ...